SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly without first explicitly connecting to a DBMS (see CONNECT Statement). If you omit the CONNECT statement, an implicit ...

You can use the pass-through facility of PROC SQL to build your own Teradata SQL statements and then pass them to the Teradata server for execution. The PROC SQL CONNECT statement defines the ...

Last week I attended the SQL PASS Summit conference in Seattle and enjoyed every minute. “A kid in a candy store” is how I describe it. Where else can we find out about new features, hidden features, ...